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You cant compare Volvo then and Volvo now.

But if the question is- would a young Swedish researcher today consider giving away an important invention that would help the world...I think it could still happen.

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The problem is that most researchers are employed. The inventions are thus property of their employer.

Unless they are employed by a university. In Sweden, employees of universities always own the invention even though universities function like companies in most aspects.

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